"The people of Nagorno Karabakh enjoy US's respect and the latter is rendering immediate humanitarian aid to Karabakh year by year", the declaration of Artsakh Friendly Association issued in view of US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Elizabeth Johns' statement. The declaration was read at yesterday's press conference in the Armenian parliament by deputy Hamlet Harutyunian. The declaration also stresses that Nagorno Karabakh is by no means behind the other states of the region from the standpoint of democracy. "Elizabeth John's statement questions the activities of the OSCE Minsk Group as well as the opinion dominating in the international structures according to which the Karabakh conflict as compared to the other post-soviet conflicts has a specific character and demands a delicate approach". The Artsakh members are going to send a corresponding letter to the US Ambassador in Armenia.